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The Railway Children

Edith Nesbit

The Railway Children

Paper book: €21.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1906
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
441
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Children's Literature, Adventure
Moods
Feel comforted, Escape it all
Translated from
English

Book summary

One evening, two gentlemen come to see Father, who leaves with them and does not come back. His three children, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, leave London with their mother for a little house in the country, near a railway line. Every morning they wave at the passing train, and an old gentleman at the window ends up waving back.

The mystery of the missing father hangs over this tender story full of adventures, in which the children even stop a train by waving red petticoats.

Simply written, with plenty of dialogue, the novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

Τρία παιδιά πρέπει να σταματήσουν ένα τρένο. Η Ρομπέρτα, ο Πίτερ και η Φίλις περπατούν πάνω από τη σιδηροδρομική γραμμή. Ξαφνικά, βράχια και δέντρα πέφτουν στις ράγες. Σε λίγο έρχεται ένα τρένο ολοταχώς. Για να…

The world of the book

Μια ύπαιθρος όπου περνούν τρένα. Εκείνη την εποχή, τα ατμοκίνητα τρένα ενώνουν κάθε χωριό με τις μεγάλες πόλεις. Για τρία παιδιά από το Λονδίνο, όλα είναι καινούργια: ο μικρός σταθμός και ο υπάλληλός του, ο κύριος…

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